Hi Steve,
First of all, congratulations on doing such an amazing job with your website. It’s been my no. 1 Leica site for ages and I visit at least once a day! Please find attached 3 images I selected from a recent Holiday trip I made to New York. It was my first time visiting the city and as a matter of fact, I met up there with two flickr buddies of mine, Stephen (Banzai) Terry and Justin (tsxer) Leveritt. We spent a week shooting like crazy, talking camera gear (such fun to tell people about Leica cameras when they see a lunch table full of gear!) and generally having a blast. I don’t think I’ve ever had such a productive and cool photo trip, NY sure is an amazing place for street photography.
Some info on these shots; they’ve all been taken on a Leica M6 classic, 35mm f/1.2 Nokton lens and Tri-X film. I used an ND-9 (3 stops) filter for some of the shallow dof daytime photos. First photo is on Broadway if I remember correctly, a candid shot where I got noticed in the last second. I think it works even better than if he hadn’t seen me 🙂 Second photo is near Wall Street, I was amazed by how clean and white all those buildings were, it made the light there even more amazing. And the third shot is from a subway station, she looked at me not entirely sure if I was shooting her or something else, I’m glad I didn’t back down!
Well, I have more of the trip in this flickr set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/renzsu/sets/72157624338717448/
Thanks for all your effort Steve and all the best!
Kind Regards,
Renze Rispens
Very Nice shots
now, if only the lady in the second pic was painted red… seem like a scene from the matrix. 😛
@ Michiel – good one.
Great shots…, I like the one in the Subway! In your face street photography. I wish i had shot more tri-x when I was in new york, but shot way too much slow film. Still, you shoot with what you got!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37556068@N06/4863352701/#/photos/37556068@N06/4863352701/lightbox/
Michiel, no I still have the M6, as a matter of fact I’m bringing it this weekend to shoot 🙂
Lets have some beers next week!
Will do! Sunday usually suits me best. I’ll bring my unobtrusive, disguised as an old M, light and pocketable D700… 🙂
Good pics Renze! I thought the M6 was replaced by an M8… Let´s have a beer soon!
Thank you guys, I’m glad you are enjoying the photos.
The first shot is great, that guy looks like an absolute original!
All three have that lovely Leica feel! Excellent tones, contrast and composition! Great street photography ^_^
really really like the second one there